it's telling that amazon announces products like this without addressing the harms it could cause.

people have been abused via thermostats and smart lights.... but please, buy our flying internet camera. https://t.co/exG79ZHEsI

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) September 24, 2020

Consider 2 million Alexa customers have registered for Alexa Guard thus far.

Guard+ expands capabilities to a new level with a flying in-home Alexa security drone.

The subscription basis of Alexa is just starting.

You are subscribing to AI power.

Amazon is first to know this. https://t.co/B4oTiXpXep pic.twitter.com/vHRTdxhZ2B

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 24, 2020

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry… https://t.co/p6rPF7djxC

— John Siracusa (@siracusa) September 24, 2020

Ring is moving beyond home security to now protect your vehicles.https://t.co/oKhHKSAHkd

— Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung) September 24, 2020

Today Amazon announced they will be developing car security cameras w/ Ring. As somebody who's had their car broken into a few times, that's pretty brilliant... and about time! https://t.co/mEqeLfwsVC

— Metal Jesus Rocks (@MetalJesusRocks) September 25, 2020

Uhh, Ring just announced a security drone for INSIDE your home. Yes, it flies around your house recording things. IN. YOUR. HOME. pic.twitter.com/IsJ0fMDrcL

— Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern) September 24, 2020

Ring announces new short-lived and expensive dog toy https://t.co/mVaFIT9Rwc

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) September 24, 2020

BOOOOOM!

Meet the Amazon Ring In Home Drone!

Yes your own security drone in your home and Alexa controlled.

We wanted flying robots and we got talking flying robots! pic.twitter.com/mxdCLFXAiF

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 24, 2020

Hacker's paradise https://t.co/2Ejowymyin

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) September 24, 2020

If this had a powerful laser death beam as an option I’d totally be a buyer. https://t.co/9IskTPn02K

— Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) September 24, 2020

Tweets like this, while not technically inaccurate, normalize a trillion dollar company’s capitalization on fear.

What suspicious activity inside your house? Your pet knocked over a plant. It wasn’t a burglar. https://t.co/y9MuV7xuWQ

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) September 25, 2020

WHAT. Ring made a drone.

The new Always Home Cam is a tiny drone that flies around your home and films.

$250 pic.twitter.com/qjyllGR7VN

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) September 24, 2020

I keep reading that Amazon has released an indoor home surveillance drone and it seems to be real and yet I absolutely refuse to believe it

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) September 24, 2020

This'll make a great (but expensive) cat toy. https://t.co/8gXnOfufZY

— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) September 24, 2020

unlimited treats for life to the first cat or dog that takes down an indoor Amazon security camera drone ?? https://t.co/VXqcfjER3p

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) September 24, 2020

Ok this is one of these ideas that’s either absolutely brilliant or really stupid:

Ring’s new indoor drone security camera

Instead of getting multiple security cameras… get 1 that flies around your house ?

(Gif from @backlon)https://t.co/ZD7SYcy2Km pic.twitter.com/iNfSMH2AgK

— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) September 24, 2020

Amazon was one of the first companies to understand the subscription to computer power on a mass scale.

What most of Silicon Valley missed while listening to the wrong folks is that the #VoiceFirst revolution is about the subscription of AI power and thus far Amazon owns it. https://t.co/NNzmjv7MST

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 24, 2020

Amazon’s new flying Always Home Cam raises a whole bunch of thorny questions:

What’s to stop it from spying on family or neighbors?

Becoming a tool for police?

Or being used against its owner?https://t.co/j83pIglltw pic.twitter.com/Bi9vDvgDPS

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) September 24, 2020

the latest season of black mirror was not what i expected https://t.co/EYGP9heoWQ

— Owen Williams ⚡?? (@ow) September 24, 2020

Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house https://t.co/uU5bNWE7lg via @Verge // Trying to imagine testing this in a household with a cat.

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) September 24, 2020

Want. Unclear if it's Tesla's LTE or its own though.

The first compatible vehicles for Ring Car Connect are @Tesla models 3, X, S, & Y. Watch Tesla Sentry Mode and recorded driving footage in the Ring app over wifi or from anywhere via LTE (with an optional connectivity plan). pic.twitter.com/rbf5seP4Ep

— Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) September 24, 2020

Genuine question here: What are the legitimate use cases for an indoor camera drone? Why would someone feel they need this? https://t.co/qvXCPp0a1S

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 24, 2020

FAA rules don't apply inside your house, so Amazon can fly an autonomous drone around to spy on you or whatever.

Who asked for this!? https://t.co/aWe33Gq07x

— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) September 24, 2020

I've seen this home drone camera idea floating around for years, but @ring just up and did it.

2020 is wild, man. https://t.co/tkMIm966S6

— Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) September 24, 2020

I'll say my usual “creepy!” to Jeff Bezos recording me, but *if* one wanted to see inside their home while away, I guess I'd prefer this over permanent installation of cameras in living rooms: you'll at least know when you're being recorded. https://t.co/MEQQ5DKXJz

— Tony Webster (@webster) September 24, 2020

Acclimating everyone to the surveillance dystopia one product at a time. https://t.co/xjybXkDLYb

— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) September 24, 2020

Hello, this is insane and I love it more than I should https://t.co/6J8EdK6Gur

— nilay patel (@reckless) September 24, 2020

Why not just put a Nest cam in every room of your house and tweet the password? It will be just about as secure. https://t.co/zyn2TiTzRA

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) September 24, 2020

You know

That thing that you'd naturally assume they had from the start https://t.co/fyokDrJD36

— ?Unreasonably Exhausted? (@JaysonsRage) September 24, 2020

Honestly thought this was a cyberpunk dystopian performance art prank for a second. https://t.co/dRoTTqYnHR

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) September 24, 2020

New @washingtonpost:

Amazon appears undeterred by its emerging reputation in consumer tech: creep.

My 1st impressions of Amazon’s new security drone, car camera and swiveling speaker, which push the boundaries of surveillance — againhttps://t.co/S0lT3a5RSu pic.twitter.com/xfAMmssZU2

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) September 24, 2020

Hellll no, to the no no no https://t.co/R9UvrUwpSe pic.twitter.com/5tyQNWhXzZ

— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) September 24, 2020

My only question is can it be ceiling-mounted so it roosts like a bat? https://t.co/Mw48DwoyIM

— Tom Simonite (@tsimonite) September 24, 2020

They call it "security" and that's how they get you hooked.

Amazon is a surveillance network company now. You are the enabler. https://t.co/Retti0fhW7

— Theo Priestley (@tprstly) September 24, 2020

can't wait for amazon to have a detailed map of the inside of my house and recommend me products for each available surface

— Tim Haribo (@tbarribeau) September 24, 2020

Ring is a pernicious surveillance system & widespread adoption is going to cause tremendous collective harm to privacy & civil liberties. I've been trying to anticipate the next step in the function creep + normalization slippery slope shuffle. Beyond my dystopian fears! https://t.co/uKwdBymhTf

— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) September 24, 2020

Given people are staying home... this seems like a recipe for your kids who know how to program devices to drive you crazy, especially if they can order the drone around from those cute kiddie echo dots. https://t.co/5gMD0uikLv

— Bertha Coombs (@berthacoombs) September 24, 2020

This is brilliant... and i know folks have done it before, but a home security drone is a breakthrough for when you’re not home.

Imagine this thing doing an hourly patrol of your home when you’re away.... just amazing. pic.twitter.com/xPvhNnBNwE

— jason@calacanis.com (@Jason) September 24, 2020

This is a way to get a 3D scan of your house. Will be very important for augmented reality glasses and shopping apps. This will be able to make an inventory of everything you own, too. I can just see the promotions from Amazon now. https://t.co/BCbRGEEuuq

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) September 24, 2020

If they're already inside the house literally what is the drone doing for me. Just going to tattle that my ring doorbell didn't do its job right as I'm being robbed https://t.co/3yHW1tjo0r

— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) September 24, 2020

For that moment when you want to make sure the FBI gets every angle of your federal crime with their search warrant. https://t.co/p4RJJr1INX

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) September 24, 2020

what, and I cannot stress this enough, the hell https://t.co/KxnjBOLPlB

— Jeremy Bowers (@jeremybowers) September 24, 2020

https://t.co/EPmACbeD8s pic.twitter.com/GQS77hR1h5

— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) September 24, 2020

To decipher the significance of this drone, we need to look beyond its functionality. If lots of people buy it that risks further normalizing domestic drone surveillance. And if Ring can travel around the house today, future products might be designed to travel elsewhere.

— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) September 24, 2020

This would have felt a little over the top in Minority Report. https://t.co/HKPo4JIZNa

— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 24, 2020

In a country with no laws regulating digital privacy, anyone who buys this from a company with a history of privacy problems is insane. https://t.co/B7icqjB1b4

— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) September 24, 2020

Privacy Twitter when Amazon customers start frantically preordering literal surveillance drones for their homes… pic.twitter.com/UTxNaIzcDi

— parker (@pt) September 24, 2020

OK - so now Ring are doing a drone for your house. It flies around indoors filming!
Ooooohhh...https://t.co/zYkQ1oYyWx

— Joe Baguley (@JoeBaguley) September 24, 2020

a cute new pet that feeds off your private data https://t.co/MX20qE6HSh

— andrew webster (@A_Webster) September 24, 2020

The scale shot makes it worse pic.twitter.com/krNlHTQuQ9

— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) September 24, 2020

People hacked Ring cameras and used them to spy on children in their bedrooms. Do not, under any circumstances, put an Amazon surveillance drone in your house. https://t.co/DrRq9snqN2

— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) September 24, 2020

This is going to be a hard no from me. https://t.co/3UXF57ND89

— Zachary Fryer-Biggs (@ZachFB) September 24, 2020

Potentially very unpopular thought: the drone is only slightly more intrusive than an indoor camera. And in many ways less so — because at least when you’re home, you can hear it. Cameras just have a little status light.https://t.co/bx2P2fm5qe pic.twitter.com/VNnl59AIfN

— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) September 24, 2020

이제 가정용 보안 카메라도 소형 드론화 되는군요. 이거 코난에서 인용해서 스케치 만들면 볼만할듯

Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house - The Verge https://t.co/48WI2tLMvb

— lunamoth (@lunamoth) September 24, 2020

Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house https://t.co/aAHJe9aEB8

— Marcus Schuler (@MarcusSchuler) September 25, 2020

"Oh that? It's just the flying surveillance drone I *for some unknowable reason willingly bought and installed in my home*" https://t.co/iQrjB0Zl3v

— Eli Pariser (@elipariser) September 24, 2020

Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house $AMZNhttps://t.co/HiniuGyn9Z

— Jerry Capital (@JerryCap) September 24, 2020

"flying camera go brrrrrr" https://t.co/XzLDrsCa39

— Kyle Seth Gray (@kylesethgray) September 24, 2020

Ring made a security #drone that flies around inside your home https://t.co/a8u2E4JFOv #tech #feedly

— Nicolas Babin (@Nicochan33) September 25, 2020

防犯だけでなく、不倫対策で買う人いたりして。。。

Ring made a security drone that flies around inside your home https://t.co/26I2bKZDFO @engadgetより

— fujinumagic ?????? (@fujinumagic) September 25, 2020

OK - so now Ring are doing a drone for your house. It flies around indoors filming!
Ooooohhh...https://t.co/zYkQ1oYyWx

— Joe Baguley (@JoeBaguley) September 24, 2020

Ring has announced a new drone camera that autonomously flies around your house while you're not home, monitoring it for suspicious activity. Not sure how I feel about it but this thing would make my dog go bonkers. It will be available next year for $250.https://t.co/aGjatHbc67

— USC Psycho ? (@uscpsycho) September 24, 2020

You know that expression "What the flying f*?!" https://t.co/mJgZ2aLlh8

— Maggie (@_m46s) September 24, 2020

Yikes. https://t.co/QnYlLIddkq pic.twitter.com/2FZS31bmeO

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) September 25, 2020

As if #Alexa listening to everything you say and phoning the mother ship wasn’t enough. Now they want a mini spy drone flying around filming your house from the inside. Anyone buying this has zero privacy left. https://t.co/oF53sXGgRQ

— Jared Tate ©️ (@jaredctate) September 25, 2020

Amazon Unveils Drone That Films Inside Your Home. What Could Go Wrong? https://t.co/R6sEQypGwK

— Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) September 25, 2020

Amazon Unveils Drone That Films Inside Your Home. What Could Go Wrong? https://t.co/vALyB9eFUk@peterfgallagher#Tech #Technology #Business #IT#LeadershipOfChange #ChangeManagement #4IRChange@consultinga2B@LeadershipofCha#Economy

— Peter F Gallagher (@peterfgallagher) September 25, 2020

We're too far gone beyond the pale of parody, friends https://t.co/w8YHa3mDoV

— Matt Stempeck (@mstem) September 25, 2020

#Amazon Unveils Drone That Films Inside Your Home. What Could Go Wrong? https://t.co/KJ2b5fBHQx

— Anonymous ?‍☠️ (@snowlions) September 25, 2020

"If the rummaging racoon, the intruder, or the erosion of civil liberties doesn’t wake you up at night, the drone will." ICYMI, @LaurenGoode on Amazon's autonomous flying in-home surveillance system https://t.co/iXdSCj9y7r

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) September 25, 2020

Now, in 2020, a home surveillance drone conceived of just fourteen months ago seems both more prescient and problematic. Who, exactly, is the technology going to help the most? To put it bluntly: What happens if the intruder is also the police? https://t.co/BYB4GAD2ex

— Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) September 25, 2020

Amazonが「Ring Always Home Cam」というセキュリティカメラ付きドローンを発表。家の中のパトロールルートを設定することができ、Ringのアラームと連動して何が起こったか自動で見に行ってくれるため、複数のカメラが不要になる。また充電中はカメラが隠れているので安心。https://t.co/6hAv6AUCIN

— 今村咲 (@saki_imamura) September 24, 2020

Amazonのセキュリティ防犯カメラRing、空飛ぶ防犯ドローンを発表。

自分はRingを使っているけど、扇風機にぶちあたったり、裸の姿を監視されたり、外に飛び出たり、部屋に閉じ込めちゃったり、充電切れで死んでいたり、ルンバみたいなことが起きそうで、買いたくないな…?https://t.co/ilcHAU50mo

— 米国株ブタ子??から配信中? (@BullBearButa) September 25, 2020

Amazon's newest Ring device is a flying security camera drone https://t.co/nBgXFudV2R

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) September 24, 2020

Amazonの新製品「飛ぶ監視カメラ」かっこいい。https://t.co/MlWpZb41QP

— yoosee (@yoosee) September 25, 2020

This would drive my cats absolutely batshit.https://t.co/djLaQ0XoGg

— Anomaly ? ? (@spatial_anomaly) September 24, 2020

Amazon Ring flying home security camera drone announced https://t.co/5QBXomTMY4 pic.twitter.com/MJjccrorAo

— Evan Kirstel #RemoteWork (@EvanKirstel) September 24, 2020

Thinking about getting this just so I can watch my cat take it down out of the air https://t.co/PCSC4U363c

— kif (@kifleswing) September 24, 2020

Confederate flag incident at Virginia high school sparks concern of racist behavior https://t.co/wtDNdLW9tB #Confederacygate #GamblingInTheCasino pic.twitter.com/xXr31ZE8ft

— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) February 25, 2019

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a wide-ranging, at times apparently extemporaneous U.N. General Assembly speech in which he called Modi’s actions in Kashmir “stupid” and “cruel.”#Kashmir #ImranKhan #UNGA https://t.co/kIZBcLb9Sh

— آزاد رینــچ ™️ (@NaikRooh) September 29, 2019

TODAY: Join #BloodOnTheWall filmmakers @sebastianjunger and @nickquested for a virtual conversation with @postlive at 11am ET!
Stream at https://t.co/vaqOBsj91x pic.twitter.com/PPCBQWzYEw

— Nat Geo Docs (@natgeodocs) September 25, 2020

Here in Jefferson Sq Park where authorities on rooftops are peering down at demonstrators protesting Breonna Taylor decision. People here feel pain, betrayal.

Protesters shouting they know they’re being watched. “Come off that roof,” one man shouted. https://t.co/bf0wsHwYcE pic.twitter.com/PgbqrybefY

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) September 24, 2020

Hindu-radical govt of Modi curbs basic human rights of #Kashmiris, is busy in changing demographics, exploiting its natural res! Economics not human right violations, shame on world. #KashmirWantsFreedom @RepChrisSmith @RepGusBilirakis @Deb4CongressNM https://t.co/izJ3pQYity

— Mariyem (@KashmirAndMe_) September 21, 2020

아마존의 기묘한 가정용 드론이 집 안에서 날아 다닙니다. https://t.co/Q683cxPVu0

— editoy (@editoy) September 26, 2020

We are so fucked on-the-fly!! https://t.co/dviXlZdH8c

— Pablo Corona Fraga (@pcoronaf) September 25, 2020

Amazon has unveiled a drone that films inside your home. What, indeed, could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/Ibq893zVQe pic.twitter.com/8M7MusFVQu

— Free Software Fndn. (@fsf) September 25, 2020

Privacy: Amazon Unveils Drone That Films Inside Your Home. https://t.co/rJVvYT91Qp

— Estelle Metayer (@Competia) September 25, 2020

"Amazon’s Bizarre Home Drone Flies Around Inside Your House"https://t.co/RjImU1dFJf

This is toted as a security thing, but you KNOW that 9 out of 10 buyers will get it to entertain their pets. (Maybe 10 out of 10.)

— Lindsay Buroker (@GoblinWriter) September 25, 2020

Amazon's new drone reminds me of something @pierce used to say: the company's dream is to deliver you a new light bulb the very moment the old one goes out.

Now, with possible video of all your broken lightbulbs, the dream gets closer.https://t.co/tYXPSflVlx

— nxthompson (@nxthompson) September 25, 2020

Nevada Democrats initially forswore using apps after a coding error and rushed design choices threw the Iowa contest into chaos. https://t.co/uaL5N3txFS #cybersecurity #databreach #ransomware

— Convergent Mission Solutions (@Convergent_Msns) September 24, 2020

Who got the last round of PPE loans?@SpeakerPelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi's EDI Associates and Piatti Restaurant Company received $2.4 millionhttps://t.co/Euf9CQcnuc https://t.co/FRyNPMR2ZT

— ⏳California Towhee ⏳?☮️ (@amborin) August 8, 2020

Louisville protests drone, helicopters overhead. Ongoing coverage https://t.co/H8BpgnfxOT also follow ⁦@RobertKlemko⁩ & ⁦@D_Hawk⁩ pic.twitter.com/wIZuN9Wb2i

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) September 25, 2020

“The system as a whole has failed her” words from Breonna’s mother, Tamika Palmer, read by aunt Bianca, with attorney Ben Crump. https://t.co/bf0wsHwYcE pic.twitter.com/N1f5sp40L2

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) September 25, 2020